Watched all BBC, SkySportsF1, Speed, and now NBC.
The US broadcasters will never catch up with the UK ones who had done better and better.

From commercial breaks from iTV, to no interruption with plenty pre-race and forum on BBC, then further dedicated channel on SkySports. There were major leap forward in terms of viewer experience from 2009 onwards.

Here in US, Speed had stuck with their format without much improvement.
Last year they just finally put Qualifying sessions live, instead of a 5 mins delay. But the commercial break issue was never being addressed by Fox Sports.

Then we just saw NBC Sports first attempt on F1. So far many noticeable small steps of improvements. Better studio, uninterrupted commercial break (all except two), and post-race coverage. So far I do get a feeling that they do want to promote the sport and give American viewers a better experience.

They might never be as good as SkySports, but its a delight that viewers don't know what's going on during commercial breaks.

The Diffey voice inflection over meaningless moments is the only thing I don't like about him. I actually like him, I just preferred Varsha, possibly a sentimental pick, but neither is so much better than the other that it would be anything else.

I do love Buxton, too bad NBC has removed the best part of SPEEDs coverage (that I know of) and that is paddock pass. I could listen to Buxton and Matchett for the entire race and be happy.

Did anyone let David Hobbs know that Lewis Hamilton is no longer racing at McLaren? He called Perez Hamilton on a number of occasion from FP1 to the race. And Matchett with the "Push Push come on boy", dude you realize you aren't on a team anymore right? You aren't on the mic talking to that driver, did you know that Matchett? You just sound like a tool.

Same ol' SHIT commentary from the F1 commentators. It's almost as if they refuse to do any homework prior to the Grand Prix.

I end up talking over the commentary with my friends so I am not too bugged by it. And all sports it seems have commentators that say stupid things so nothing new. I don't like the 5 laps and then break for commercial (even with the dual screen; half commercial - half race deal).

I streamed the Sky coverage side by side and the lack of commercials alone makes the coverage infinitely better. That, and the coverage is in fact, infinitely better. haha

Interesting insights from Sky and BBC that NBC didn't spot was that Webber could have forced Seb off the track in turn 4 where Seb finally passed him but chose not to. Coulthard noticed it immediately and Sky analyzed it shortly after the race.

I will say that NBC did spot a few things that the brits missed, but on a whole Sky and BBC give the viewer a better picture of what is going on. As they should because they have at minimum twice the manpower covering the race and no commercials.

I'm hoping NBC will give this sport more of the budget soon so that they can take out the commercials, at minimum dual screen all of them. And send more people, especially the commentators, to the races. Too much going on for Will to cover by himself.